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With regard to small clearings, however, in the vicinity of villages, native cultivation, and settlements, there is reason to think that clearing would have a very beneficial result.
Fifth Point of Special Importance.
(Report, paragraph 124.) Similar recommendations to these, on the subject of granting freedom to settlers and natives to hunt and destroy game within prescribed areas, and subject to prescribed conditions, were made in the Sleeping Sickness Reports dated 1912 and 1913, and to some extent have been since then in force in the Luangwa proclaimed area. (A statement with map, showing (1) the areas where such destruction is being allowed, and (2) any conditions which the local Govern- ment may think fit to prescribe, is asked for by the Under Secretary of State.)
Sixth Point of Special Importance.
(Paragraphs 127-130.) Great importance is attached by the Committee to further entomological research.
The importance of a greater knowledge in this respect has been for some time fully realized by this Administration, and a considerable amount of very useful work has been already done both by Dr. Kinghorn and Mr. Lloyd on the Luangwa Sleeping Sickness Commission, and since then by Messrs. Lloyd and Eminson, work ing independently, the former at Ngoa, in the Mpika district, the latter in the Upper Kafue Valley.
As a result of this work very considerable light has been thrown on the bionomics of Glossina morsitans; it may indeed be claimed that this work is the first in this branch of entomology to show a prospect of useful, practical results.
A permanent entomological research camp has now been established near Kashitu (on the Broken Hill-Ndola Railway line) where continued research will be made on the lines indicated in the last Sleeping Sickness Report for this territory.
A. MAY, Principal Medical Officer.
The Secretary to the Administration,
Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia.
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UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL.
(No. 13.)
MY LORD,
Downing Street, 7th January, 1915. WITH reference to my despatch No. 252, of the 4th of June, 1914,* forward- ing copies of the Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Sleeping Sickness, t I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, copies of further correspondencet with the Governor of Nyasaland, which may be of interest to them as showing what action it is proposed to take in that Protectorate.
2. I also enclose copies of a report§ by a Committee appointed to consider the form of the annual reports on the destruction of animals in tsetse fly areas in Africa, together with copies of the leaflet referred to in the report.
I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
*No. 80 in Miscellaneous No. 287.
Miscellaneous No. 287.
+[Cd. 7849], May, 1914. Nos. 92 and 100 in § See No. 99 in Miscellaneous No. 287.
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No. 4.
NYASALAND.
THE SECRETARY OF STATE to THE GOVERNOR.
[Copy to High Commissioner for South Africa, Tropical Diseases Bureau, and Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 2nd February, 1915. L.F.] [Answered by No. 17.]
(No. 13.)
SIR,
Downing Street. 27th January, 1915. WITH reference to my despatch No. 282, of the 18th of December, 1914,* I have the honour to transmit to you, for your information, copies of correspondence† with the British South Africa Company on the subject of the recommendations made by the Interdepartmental Committee on Sleeping Sickness.
2. As the problems connected with trypanosomiasis are much the same in Nyasaland and Rhodesia, I think it desirable that you should be acquainted with what is being done in Rhodesia, and I trust that your Government and the Administration in Rhodesia will keep closely in touch in this matter.
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I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
COLONIAL OFFICE to THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY. [Copy to High Commissioner for South Africa, Tropical Diseases Bureau, and Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 2nd February, 1915. L.F.]
Downing Street, 27th January, 1915.
SIR,
I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th of January, transmitting copies of a letter from the Administrator of Northern Rhodesia and its enclosure, on the subject of various points arising out of the Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Sleeping Sickness. §
2. On the 4th of January a letter was sent to you from this Department summarizing, for the information of the British South Africa Company, the present position with regard to the recommendations of the Committee, as affecting the Nyasaland Protectorate.
3. From that letter it will be seen that in Nyasaland the "inoculation experi- ment," and further examination of aardvark, etc., are for the present postponed; that the proposed experiment of fencing a given area and killing off all the game within it has been negatived; that certain experimental clearing is contemplated; and that steps will be taken to carry into effect the recommendation of the Com- mittee, in paragraph 124 of their report, § as to free destruction of animals in prescribed areas.
4. Dr. Aylmer May refers to all these points in his memorandum, and Mr. Har- court has no criticisms to offer on the observations made by Dr. May. With regard to the second and sixth points mentioned in the memorandum, he notes with satisfaction what is being done; and he considers that what Dr. May describes as a divided experiment" for ascertaining whether man forms a reservoir of the human trypano- some would be valuable.
5. As regards free destruction of animals, which Dr. May states has been allowed to some extent in the Luangwa proclaimed area, Mr. Harcourt would be obliged if he could be furnished with any particulars available as to the conditions under which free destruction of animals has been allowed in Southern r Northern Rhodesia, and the results obtained thereby.
J am, &c.,
H. J. READ, for the Under-Secretary of State.
*No. 100 in Miscellaneous No. 287.
§ [Cd. 7849], May, 1914.
↑ Nos. 1, 2, and 5.
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* No. 2.